BIBCHECK 1 "22 April 2000" "Version 0.10"

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NAME

bibcheck - check a BibTeX bibliography file

SYNOPSIS

bibcheck [ -author ] [ -copyright ] [ -debug ] [ -help ] [ -version ] <infile >outfile
or
bibcheck [ -author ] [ -copyright ] [ -debug ] [ -help ] [ -version ] BibTeXfile(s) >outfile

DESCRIPTION

bibcheck applies heuristic checks to BibTeX files to ferret out possible errors, portability problems, and stylistic problems, often finding ones that are quite difficult to spot by manual proofreading.

Some of the checks made are

Warning messages identify the file name and line number, in a format recognized by the GNU Emacs compile command, so that you can run it from within an emacs(1) session, and then position rapidly to the source file locations where the messages were raised.

lacheck(1) performs similar checks on LaTeX files; its great utility was the inspiration for this program.


OPTIONS

Command-line options may be abbreviated to a unique leading prefix, and letter case is ignored.

The leading hyphen that distinguishes an option from a filename may be doubled, for compatibility with GNU and POSIX conventions. Thus, -author and --author are equivalent.

To avoid confusion with options, if a filename begins with a hyphen, it must be disguised by a leading absolute or relative directory path, e.g. /tmp/-foo.bib or ./-foo.bib.

-author
Display an author credit on stderr, and exit with a success status code.
-copyright
Display a copyright message on stderr, and exit with a success status code.
-debug
Display a token stream on stdout, suitable for possible input to bibunlex(1), or for identifying the cause of a reported parsing error.
-help
Display a usage message on stderr, and exit with a success status code.
-version
Display a program version message on stderr, and exit with a success status code.

SEE ALSO

bibclean(1), bibdup(1), bibextract(1), bibindex(1), bibjoin(1), biblabel(1), biblex(1), biblook(1), biborder(1), bibparse(1), bibsearch(1), bibsort(1), bibsplit(1), bibtex(1), bibunlex(1), emacs(1), lacheck(1).

AUTHOR

Nelson H. F. Beebe
Center for Scientific Computing
University of Utah
Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC
155 S 1400 E RM 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
USA
Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
       [email protected] (Internet)
WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
Telephone: +1 801 581 5254
FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148

COPYRIGHT

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###              Copyright (C) 2000 Nelson H. F. Beebe               ###
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AVAILABILITY

Internet source distributions of bibcheck are available at the World-Wide Web Uniform Resource Locator addresses

ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.jar
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.zip
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.zoo

http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.jar
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.tar.gz
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.zip
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bibcheck-x.yy.zoo

where x.yy is the current version (0.10 for the version whose documentation you are now reading).

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